Women Spy Thrillers

The 1940s, Washington, DC. Government girl Louise Pearlie is asked to review the file usage of a missing analyst from the Office of Strategic Services - the United States’ wartime intelligence agency - only to learn he’d drowned in the Tidal Basin days before. The OSS confirms it was an accident, and Louise is sent back to her regular job in the file rooms. Her time spent investigating Paul Hughes at least has one positive outcome, though: Louise meets a young woman in the OSS Reading Room, who asks her to join her “salon".

February, 1944. Washington, DC. With the war entering its most dangerous phase, Louise Pearlie is thrilled to be reassigned to the London office of the OSS. But in order to take up her new post, she must make a perilous crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in the SS Amelia Earhart. Accompanying her on the voyage to Liverpool is an eclectic group of passengers, including the aloof Blanche Bryant, whose husband, Eddie, died in mysterious circumstances on the ship’s voyage out to New York, three months before.

When Monique Duchesne sees the police outside her door long after midnight, she fears they are waiting for her. Instead of interrogating her about her past again, they want to talk about her murdered neighbor. A man she barely knew. Convinced the police suspect she knows more than she admits, Monique risks everything to find the killer before her world explodes. The deeper she digs, the closer the killer gets. Is the murder a coincidence, or is someone targeting her?

Prague in the 1950s is a city of numerous small terrors, of political tyranny, corruption, and surveillance. There is no way of knowing whether one's neighbor is spying for the government, or what one's supposed friend will say under pressure to a state security agent. A loyal party member might be imprisoned or executed as quickly as a traitor; innocence means nothing for a person caught in a government trap.

Catherine Ling is one of the CIA’s most prized operatives. Raised on the unforgiving streets of Hong Kong, she was pulled into the agency at the age of 14, already having accumulated more insight and secrets than the most seasoned professionals in her world. If life has taught her anything, it is not to get attached, but there are two exceptions to that rule: Her son, Luke, and her mentor, Hu Chang.

Her narrow escape from blue-eyed assassin Tom Booker has made former data analyst Dani Britton question all of her choices-like trusting "good guys" who carry badges. On the run and haunted by the government-sanctioned massacre of her coworkers, Dani finally settles in remote Redemption Key, Florida, at a bar where strong drinks and shady deals are the norm.

Israelis and Palestinians cooperate to make a difficult situation worse. Good people, doing bad things for the best of reasons. A complex murder investigation of a complicated set of murders starts when an Arab collaborator's body is found by a collapsed wall in the new Israeli settlement of Oranit. His death is hushed up and the body burned by the Palestinian villagers who hated him.

It’s August 1861, and her latest assignment could end the bloody Civil War and bring the fractured United States together again. All she must do is win the trust of her captive: Confederate spy and socialite Rose Greenhow. But with Rose well aware of Kate’s working-class background and belief in abolitionism, it seems an impossible task. Worse, Kate has secrets that make her vulnerable, such as her forbidden love affair with a colleague.

Der neue Thriller der Krimipreis-Trägerin. Ein Kopf in einer Plastiktüte vor dem Büro, dazu ein erschossener Geschäftsführer. Mit der NGO "Interni" stimmt deutlich etwas nicht. Und nichts ist lästiger für eine wohltätige Stiftung als schlechte Presse. Fürchtet der Lebensmittel- und Fleisch-Tycoon Wellinghofen, der Hauptmäzen der "Interni", und schickt seine Mitarbeiterin für besondere Fälle, die sich gerade Eve Klein nennt, nach Zürich zum Stiftungssitz.

In her work with a clandestine government agency, Aydan Kelly stumbles across a shadowy consortium of scientists whose members are selling classified information for personal profit. Aydan wants to report them, but there’s a small complication: Her supposedly dead husband...isn’t. He wants to rendezvous with her, but he could be working with the consortium. If she rats on the scientists, her husband will die. But if she doesn’t, the consortium will kill her....

Private investigator Robert Brixton has always hated Washington. Against his better judgment, he decides to stick around and take a job as an agent in a new State Department security agency headed by his former boss at the Washington P.D. After work one day he meets his youngest daughter, Janet, for a drink at an outdoor cafe. Shockingly, a young Arabic woman blows herself up, killing Janet and a dozen others. Seeking revenge for his daughter, Brixton follows the tracks of the bomber to a powerful senator's son.

Nach Jannas und Markus' letztem Abenteuer ist ein wenig Ruhe im Institut eingekehrt. Die beiden sind noch dabei, sich in ihrem neuen gemeinsamen Büro einzurichten und sich daran zu gewöhnen, täglich miteinander zu arbeiten. Da kommt ein neuer Auftrag gerade recht, um sie als Team auf die Probe zu stellen: Während einer internationalen Konferenz zum Thema Kriegs- und Krisenmanagement in Köln sollen sie den Personenschutz für Nadine Hochstaden übernehmen.

Drei Monate sind seit der Explosion der Yacht auf dem Rhein vergangen, bei der Janna Berg ihren guten Freund und Geheimdienstpartner Markus Neumann verloren hat. Seit dem verheerenden Unglück hat das Institut aus Sicherheitsgründen alle Verbindungen zu ihr unterbrochen. Auch wenn es ihr schwerfällt, Markus zu vergessen, bemüht Janna sich, ihr altes Leben so gut wie möglich wiederaufzunehmen. Doch dann steht eines Tages ein gut aussehender Fremder vor ihrer Tür und bittet sie, ihm und dem Institut eine letztes Mal zu helfen.

Each morning, Emily Kendrick runs on the hard-packed sand of St. Augustine Beach. She runs to clear her mind and heal her heart. From the widow's walk of the house perched high on the dunes, a man trains his binoculars on Emily. One early morning run, he sees tears spill down Emily's tanned face. She stumbles and falls, crumpling into a heap in the sand, and doesn't get up. A lone runner reaches Emily's side.

Life is good for Kit Marshall. She's a staffer in DC for a popular senator, and she lives with an adoring beagle and a brainy boyfriend with a trust fund. Then, one morning, Kit arrives at the office early and finds her boss, Senator Langsford, impaled by a stainless steel replica of an Army attack helicopter. Panicked, she pulls the weapon out of his chest and instantly becomes the prime suspect in his murder.

"A València apareixen els cadàvers de dos polítics que havien estat involucrats en trames corruptes amb un conseller d’alta volada de la Generalitat, que va fugir a l’altre punta del món abans de ser condemnat per aquests tractes il·legals. Ara totes les sospites recauen sobre l’exconseller que pot haver torn at a fer justícia, però ningú no sap on és. Ni tan sols la seva família. El fill és un aspirant a novel·lista que vol escriure la seva gran obra a partir de la història del pare. La muller és una dona de classe alta vinguda a menys que viu en la inòpia des de la fugida del marit."

Sarah and Brad's home was invaded, and Brad ended up in the hospital. Sarah decides they need to move when he gets out. However, while she is at home that evening, a few grizzly people barge into the apartment, saying they are going to paint it. Sarah can't understand this and decides they were sent by the people who invaded their home before.

Bobby Kungenook, a mysterious 17-year-old hockey phenom from the Arctic Circle, is accused of murder in New York City. Bobby’s guardian, Nadia Tesla, knows his true identity. If his secret gets out, it could cost him his life. Sports journalist Lauren Ross is in hot pursuit of Bobby’s story. Where did the boy with the blazing speed and magical hands come from? Why has no one heard of him before? Nadia’s certain the boy is innocent, but the police have a signed confession and an eyewitness.

Times are tough in Savannah for former cop and current PI Robert Brixton, so when he agrees to take on a 20-year-old murder case, he figures he's got nothing to lose. It's not long before the trail leads him deep into the corrupt underbelly of Savannah's power elite,and right into the lap of a secret government organization that's been offing "troublesome" politicians for decades.

Den 62-åriga kriminalinspektören Solbritt Andersson och hennes man Rune har förverkligat sin dröm och köpt en sommarstuga på Singö i Roslagen. Av en granne får de höra talas om Singömordet, som skett på den närbelägna marinbasen 1986, strax efter att Olof Palme mördades. Trots att anläggningen var välbevakad lyckades gärningsmannen försvinna utan ett spår, och mordet är ännu ouppklarat. Under sin semester kan Solbritt inte låta bli att göra egna efterforskningar. Sökandet efter sanningen sätter igång hänsynslösa krafter, beredda att göra allt för att hindra henne.